Pages

Saturday, December 26, 2009

ADVANCE NOTICE! IRON LUNG will be playing a pre-party for the Maryland DEATHFEST! IRON LUNG will most likely also appear at CHAOS IN TEJAS that same weekend. Prank is now working with 625 thrashcore on a re-press of IRON LUNG's first LP "life.ironlung.death."

A-Side features 4 new tracks from Avskum in the vein of their most recent LP "Uppror Underifran", blasting Swedish hardcore, fueled by sturdy D- beat bashing and harsh vocals. Flip side is two re-worked versions of Tracks from "Crucified By The Sytem". Features guest vocals from Diana of shades of grey. First press Limited to 600 copies, recorded at Evil Grille, art by crash mange, pocket sleeve. You can check out a track from the EP at the band's myspace LIMITED PRESS ON CLEAR VINYL

PLEASE MAKE SURE THEIR IS AN ADDRESS ATTACHED TO YOUR PAY PAL ACCOUNT/ PAYMENT AND THAT IT IS CORRECT.HOPING TO SHIP EVERYTHING THURSDAY OR FRIDAY, THANKS.

AVSKUM ""Folk Som Har Kan Inte Do " 7" EP ( Prank 109)LIMITED PRESS ON CLEAR VINYLA-Side features 4 new tracks from Avskum in the vein of their most recent LP "Uppror Underifran", blasting Swedish hardcore, fueled by sturdy D- beat bashing and harsh vocals. Flip side is two re-worked versions of Tracks from "Crucified By The Sytem". Features guest vocals from Diana of shades of grey. First press Limited to 600 copies, recorded at Evil Grille, art by crash mange, pocket sleeve. You can check out a track from the EP at the band's myspace: http://www.myspace.com/avskum

AVSKUM "1982 DEMO" 7" ( Prank 108)LIMITED BLACK VINYL WHILE SUPPLIES LAST.Vinyl pressing of Avskum's original 1982 demo tape. No one could make out or remember the lyrics, so there's photos from the original photo session and 12 tracks of raw, crude swedish hardcore bashing, remastered by George Horn to sound bright and shiny.

Six tracks of rampaging noise! Torrential waves of guitar distortion blast as vocals shout and swirl through the burning chaos, fueled by rapid fire drumming and thundering bass charges. This San Francisco band makes an explosive combination of Japanese-styled noisy hardcore ( KURO, GAI, CONFUSE, DISCLOSE) and heavy early 80's Finnish Hardcore influences - ( KAAOS, BASTARDS, KANSAN UUTISET ), with lyrics sung entirely in Japanese by a Tokyo Transplant and Japanese- American. MORPHEME's debut solo release after a quickly sold out demo tape and recently released a split 7" EP with Nagoya Japan's DCLONE, Recorded by Greg Wilkinson at Ear Hammer studios in Oakland, it captures the bands wild live delayed vocal effects and distorted attack. Comes in a hard pocket sleeve with an insert.

Morpheme were one of our favorite Live band's we saw this year. These Ep's have been pressed on Limited Edition White vinyl for the U.S. and Red Vinyl for Japan. Check a track of the EP at Prank's Myspace

Monday, December 21, 2009

SYOON (Isterismo) and SO Hardcore survives "Mr. Christmas"! these dudes rule and took super good care of us in Tokyo, they gave me a lot of hope for the future of the Japanese Punk scene. If you see SO at any time buy him a "party cocktail" in a can at the kombini from me, and I'll pay you back. Gunnar and Hakan from avskum, fresh off the plane and shellshocked in Koenji. This tour was a very short one and there was little time for sight seeing.We thought we were clever making the Avskum demo from 1982 on vinyl for this tour, more than one person showed up with faded shirts of the cover!!!...Old Swedish Punk is really well known in Japan, and after Asta Kask, AVSKUM are only the second old and active Swedish punk band to tour in Japan. Avskum played in Tsuyama, japan - a small rural town.. and members of the band SKIZOFRENIADJ'ed impossibly obscure Swedish Hardcore all night. Avskum's minds = blown, when's the last time you heard NISSE NOTTER?

Hiroshi from Dclone @ Soundcheck in Tsuyama Japan. Dclone were fantastic all nights. I didn't unfortunately get to see complete sets of many bands, hence not a lot of live band photos - but I am stoked on this photo of Yu-taro at the same show, (hey these are all off my phone!) TSUYAMA IS BURNING!!!!

Vocalist / Guitarrist of DISTURD was kind enough to pick us up at the train station and drive us back to Okayama, host us, and made some absolutely incredible miso soup that Avskum was a little scared to try in the morning. DISTURD are Great band that combines CROW-style metallic punk with maybe more of an Oakland Sabbath-metal punk vibe. They will do an LP and tour the states in the coming year.

AIchi from Reality Crisis the man who brought this whole tour together- Domo arigato gozaimashita. Reality Crisis Caused my rare, annual appearance in the slam pit twice for their classics off of "Discharge your frustration" that are up on their myspace, so killer. We awere lucky to have support from CLOWN, who totally killed it every night as well.

Post a great show in Nagoya at the Izakaya at 2 AM or later, Aichi, Shinii from D-Clone and vocalist of SYSTEM FUCKER.. I had the most incredible deep fried potato Mochi filled with cream cheese at this Izakaya and it was nice to share good food with good people.

Shin from FRAMTID and Avskum at the Osaka Train station. Avskum played an incredible all night show with Organism, Warhead, Framtid, Reality Crisis, Clown, Elekids, It was so overwhelming, I'm still processing it. Thank you Shin for your organization, honoring Avskum by having them play this special event and everything you do for the Osaka and Japanese punk scene.

Pressed for Avskum's Japan tour at the start of this month, this is Avskum's original 1982 demo put to vinyl for the first time. 12 tracks original recorded in 1982, these are lo-fi crude bashing akin to the band's legendary "Crucified By the System" EP (with the band's original guitarrist-Bassist Hakan switched over to Guitar in the early 90's and Jorgen was added on Bass) Limited to 600 copies!

NEEDLES- a group featuring Brin from DEAD AND GONE / TALK IS POISON and Jim from TALK IS POISON as well as Martin from Crudos and Limp Wrist and Scott from Limp Wrist released a new 7" that's just as stellar as the first, you can order it at BAD SKULLS as well as Distros everywhere.

Stan From Deathreat and Signal Lost has a new band in Portland Called ARTIC FLOWERS - the name taken from the RUBELLA BALLET song, they have some of their 4-song demo up at MYSPACE which is being re-mixed by Smok from POST REGIMENT / PESD for eventual release on a 7"! Check it out!!!